Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. B. White

We have to take a new look at our athletic program and decide how we can best maximize our resources,

Keion Carpenter

He can be the best I've ever seen. He already has the athletic intangibles. If he can get the smarts of Peyton Manning, the swagger of Joe Montana, you put all that in one pot, and I'm going to put my money on my guy every time.

Wayne Clough

He brings a unique combination of enthusiasm for sports, concern for the student, experience in athletic administration, business experience and communication skills that are needed in today's complex world of intercollegiate athletics.

Kyle Whittingham

If he had not hurt his shoulder . . . you probably would have seen him as the starting stud linebacker long before now, ... He's just a guy who's a naturally athletic kid - he had 30-something interceptions in high school - and he's a playmaker.

Chris Rich

I consider this group of trainers our peers in sports medicine, ... because they are on the front line. The are always available, even when they are not working. They've got good hearts and the love doing what they do. That's why this honor was somewhat humbling, and it was a difficult speech for me. These people are all dedicated to athletic health care, and that's what I try to do in my community.

Laurie Markatos

Carroll was awesome. She's been pitching well and stepping up her game. She fits right in on the varsity level. She's tall and looks very athletic out there and when she throws the ball, she's a real presence.

Brad Todd

He's good at tying up the other guys, but we want him to open up a little more, which will make him even more of threat. He's an athletic kid, works hard in practice. We'd like to see him take it to the next level.

Mack Brown

We've given them (police) our full support from the athletic department, to the university, to the football team. At this point, no one's been charged and we're moving forward.

Jeff Houston

He was getting to the front of the rim all night on us. We saw that on the scouting report, but he's a little more athletic than what I thought.

Bobby Carpenter

Seeing a lot of teams go to the 3-4, I think helps me. Looking around, it's tough to find a whole lot of guys who have the size and weight to play outside linebacker in the 3-4. You have to be a bigger, physical guy with good speed. That's something that's kind of a (rare) commodity in today's game. I think that's something I can bring to the table.

Ken Hitchcock

To me, it's about new heroes. It's about people other than the obvious ones stepping up. It's about people supplying energy and momentum for you. We're in a no-choice situation. We need everybody to bring the energy they can.

Octavius James

We think the Civic Center is one of the greatest venues in the Midwest. We want to bring a first class card here with local fighters and we feel that we have done that.

George Braun

We think most people won't use the test, but it will be a deterrent because they will bring it up.

Pat Schroeder

We think maybe we have educated them, and we just hope they will bring their education back to our shores.

Sandy Berger

There have been incidents today, and we just need to encourage (and) press the parties to do everything to try to bring this under control,

Steve Cohen

There have been a number of confidence boosters that have helped bring this about.

David Armour

We are a new program but we're not the typical new program in that we're not going to roll over for anybody, ... Bring your 'A' game, because we're bringing ours. No matter how ridiculous the score is or how close the score is, you're still going to have to play every play.

Jessica Phillips

We are very strict about this: We do not do any evangelism, we are not missionaries. Our interest is to bring an end to the violence and destruction of civilian life in Iraq.

Mark Takano

You can't not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.

Willie Nelson

What has changed is that nothing has changed. . . . That's what has made me more unhappy than everything else.

Abby Bellows

The 17 students sitting in Madison Hall are not sitting for arrest. We're demanding a living wage; we're not demanding to get arrested.

Mike White

As a director or writer, you have to be so controlling.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

I feel that I don't have to wait around for good scripts anymore, that I can get things moving more quickly. I can ring up directors I like and say I'm keen to work with them, which is pretty great.

Zhang Yimou

I'm very honored to become executive director of the ceremonies.

Michael Beasley

It was an honor to be a part of history, but honestly I don't remember all the games we've played. I do remember the trips, though, and that's what we will miss the most ? all those good times.

Bobby Frasor

Every game we've progressed and we're starting to get things clicking, starting to turn the corner.

Brad Podevels

Every game we've had somebody step up. That's the great thing about this team. Today, it was Seth. He knew what his role was and did a great job.

Erin Aitken

Every game we had was important to stay in the hunt. We knew how important the games were. It wasn't until about the last game that we could relax a little.

Kyle Levins

Every game that we win, it's going to be less and less pressure. We've just got to sharpen up the sticks.

Larry Brown

Every game matters. At the end of the year, this is what they do: They put the wins and losses up. Obviously, we're not going to make the playoffs, but I think the important thing is you get better. Hopefully, that's what we're trying to do.

Kerry Joseph

Every game is important. We've just got to play better football. We let them take it to us.

Brandon Jacobs

This one was for the Duke. This game was totally for Mr. Mara. Mr. Mara was the heart of this team. We just went out and had to give this one to him.

Mike Bryant

This one didn't mean anything. Just us surviving. Tomorrow's game is for all the marbles.

Merritt Patterson

Being outside and being in the sun is great for me.

Maisie Williams

'Cake Boss' does massive, massive things, which are great.

Stan Musial

I have no hesitation to say that St. Louis is a great place in which to live and work.

Steve Sanger

Total has a great nutrition story, ... We need to offer variety and taste appeal.

Josh Silver

We think that we have great potential but never reach it.

Jim Calhoun

We went to see 'Glory Road' the other night and it was a great film.

Chris Scelfo

Though our wins and losses are not where we wanted them to be, to have 100 people see this season through is a great testament to their character.

Van Chancellor

Unbelievable. Oh, boy, she looks great. She's come back, lost weight, (is) in great shape, looks good.

Rob Schmidt

Twenty-one (points) is a great performance, but other guys stepped up.

I think my new thing will be to try to be a real happy guy. I'll just walk around being real happy until some jerk says something stupid to me.

John Arbuthnot

Never contradict. Never explain. Never apologize. (Those are the secrets of a happy life!)

Libby Trickett

It is completely surreal because two years ago I wasn't swimming, I was 10 kilos heavier and was on a completely different path in my life, I was still living in Sydney, I'm just so happy now.

Homer Simpson

Owww look at me Marge, I'm making people Happy! I'm the magical man, from Happy Land, who lives in a gumdrop house on Lolly Pop Lane!!!!...... By the way I was being sarcastic...

Frank Rijkaard

We did the job we had to do and I'm very happy to be in the final.

Bobby Bowden

As I look back on my 51 years of coaching, ... that is the hardest thing to explain.

Jake Voskuhl

We go out and play hard every single night. That's the one thing that we do every night. We may not win the game, but we play hard and have fun.

Lindsay Duda

This year proved that if you work hard and you have a lot of heart, you can really do anything.

Matt Davis

We are trying to improve on our 4-6 record. The kids worked hard this offseason, and this is the most seniors we've had since I've been coaching.

Dennis Shaffer

We're trying to get our name out there more and get a following. It's hard to do that with the originals. We're trying to get people pulled in first, then we'll throw some original music at them.

Tony Parker

Every time we play Houston, we have a hard time scoring. Whenever you make the outside shot, it opens things up for us.

Louis Amundson

Every time we made a run, they'd make a shot. It's disappointing to not come out and play hard from the start.

George H. W. Bush

there's people from all walks of life working hard to protect the American people.

Laveranues Coles

There's only so much you can do,' ... 'Just keep playing hard and it will be O.K.'

Toby Keith

Probably 75 percent of the people in this town think I'll fail, and the other 25 percent hope I fail,

Ambrose Bierce

PRIVATE, n. A military gentleman with a field-marshal's baton in his knapsack and an impediment in his hope.

Thomas Haynes Bayly

Where's the hope that can abate The grief of hearts thus desolate That can Youth's keenest pangs assuage, And mitigate the gloom of Age? Religion bids the tempest cease, And, leads her to a port of peace; And on, the lonely pilot steers Through the lapse of future years.

If I ever get real rich, I hope I'm not real mean to poor people, like I am now

Arnold Palmer

I just hope I can keep him from being embarrassed by my poor golf.

Duane Lunak

I just hope he's there when I get there.

Ann Collins

I just hope he's sent away for as long as it's possible to send him away.

Shatha Atiya

I just hope he'll realize what he put us through.

Joe Torre

I just hope he earns it a little more tonight,

Bill Hicks

How many people disapprove of the job the Conservatives are doing? Seventy percent. Of those same people, how many will vote for them again? ...Seventy percent. What the f-k? Where did they take this poll, at an S&M parlor?

Barack Obama

Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal.

Alex Pettyfer

The biggest thing for me is I don't want to let people down. At the same time I love things that scare me and challenge me. If your job doesn't do that and doesn't excite you there's no point in doing it.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

If one is a professional soldier, it is part of one's job to die sooner or later.

Alfred P. Sloan

Give a man a clear-cut job and let him do it.

Alfred P. Sloan

The late Alfred P. Sloan, Ir., long-time executive of General Motors Corporation, had a fivepoint "secret of success." It was: 1. Get the facts. 2. Recognize the equities of all concerned. 3. Realize the necessity of doing a better job every day. 4. Keep an open mind. 5. Work hard.

Alfred P. Sloan

The greatest real thrill that life offers is to create, to construct, to develop something useful. Too often we fail to recognize and pay tribute to the creative spirit. It is that spirit that creates our jobs

Alfred Molina

Every job is different. I don't think that I've ever had that wonderful feeling when you've finished a job or where you feel like you've mastered it or sort of nailed it... You can never be satisfied. If you're satisfied, it's time to retire.

Alfred Molina

I never made conscious choices. There were times in my life that I chose the first job that came along because I was broke. I think that there were maybe a handful of times that I had a choice. In recent years, Ive had more of a choice, and its been very nice to have that choice, but most of the time, you just hope that theres another job after this one.

Mike Davis

Before, I just used vacation time when we did tours.

Jack Parker

We were dominated. At no time were we in this game.

Annie Dillard

A schedule defends from chaos and whim. It is a net for catching days. It is a scaffolding on which a worker can stand and labor with both hands at sections of time.

Thomas Carlyle

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Denise Miller

If you live here and you see wreck after wreck after wreck, you think about that every time you're in that intersection.

Stephen Graham

I like time ticking the way it is.

Marie Kondo

Being packed all the time, even when not in use, must feel something like going to bed on an empty stomach.

Maggie Cheung

I need to be doing different things all the time; it's just part of who I am.

Julie Morgenstern

If there's an emergency, someone will come get you. Use this time to think strategically about your work.

Abraham Lincoln

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

S. I. Hayakawa

If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.

Morris Chestnut

I'm an R&B and Hip-Hop type guy. When I work out, which I do at least four or five times a week, I love to get the latest Hip-Hop because it really pumps me up and inspires me to get that workout on.

Florenz Ziegfeld

Not only may she unconsciously register a favorable impression with my associates and me, but she may also suggest something by her work that will lead to some new and novel feature in a forthcoming production.

Mike Pompeo

One of the things you don't always realize when you're younger is that not everything you try is going to work.

Michael A. Stackpole

Choosing to publish work electronically myself is really a no-brainer.

Lalu Prasad Yadav

I work so much. If I don't get all the comforts, I will turn mad.

Friedrich Schiller

The Moor has done his work, the Moor may go.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Put two or three men in positions of conflicting authority. This will force them to work at loggerheads, allowing you to be the ultimate arbiter.